This is a presentation Katherine Andersen and I have done. See others at Past Presentations. Title Stop Iteration Bait and Switch Abstract Have you ever worked on an agile project where you were pressured to get something out the door? Maybe you were told “it doesn’t have to be perfect,” “this is agile,” or “we […]
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Code Kata Reporting Tool
Code Katas are so useful we wanted to analyze, share, and relive the infamous experience. Code katas are a core training practice for software development that I believe heavily in. To read more about what they are and a list of good ones to practice see my Dojo Code Katas post. Here I want to […]
Dojo Code Katas
Code Katas are a professional training practice developers use to stay in shape when it comes to programming, problem solving, tool utilization and much much more. A great definition and background can be found at codekata.pragprog.com. That link has a good list of Code Katas but has not been updated in a long time. It […]
One Project One Repository: Mercurial Used Right
This is to help those of you transitioning to Mercurial understand the right way to use it, before someone taints your innocent minds. I was recently apart of a transition from CVS to Mercurial where the Change Management (CM) department was very much involved with the switch. The early game plan was to group projects […]
Continuous Integration: Build for Disable
I have asked myself for months, how does Google Chrome put builds out so quickly? They have a good number of developers and started with an old fashion version control system like SVN (though looks like git is being utilized now), and they put out builds every two weeks! Build For Disable Build feature sets […]